Contextualizing attitudes, framing disability: Universal Design and structural violence through the lens of the Accessibility Expedition

Copeland-Glenn, Lauren (2022) Contextualizing attitudes, framing disability: Universal Design and structural violence through the lens of the Accessibility Expedition. Masters thesis, Northern Arizona University.

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Abstract

Using a framework of structural violence (Farmer 2005), this thesis examines the ways in which the United States education system maintains stereotypical tropes about disability through enculturation (Spindler 1963, 1965). A lack of awareness and understanding of the cultural beliefs that create real barriers for disabled people is prevalent and replicated within our education system and larger society. I draw upon ideas of how disability and disabled people are viewed through two lenses borrowed from disability studies, the medical model and the social model (Linton 1998) and Universal Design. Finally, an intervention, the Accessibility Expedition is explained and discussed as a way to change attitudes toward disability by providing experiences that allow engagement with disabled people and encounters with the barriers cultural norms create for them.

Item Type:	Thesis (Masters)
Publisher’s Statement:	© Copyright is held by the author. Digital access to this material is made possible by the Cline Library, Northern Arizona University. Further transmission, reproduction or presentation of protected items is prohibited except with permission of the author.
Keywords:	Accessibility; Disability; Structural violence; Universal Design; Public attitudes
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GN Anthropology
NAU Depositing Author Academic Status:	Student
Department/Unit:	Graduate College > Theses and Dissertations College of Social and Behavioral Science > Anthropology
Date Deposited:	08 Jun 2023 17:15
Last Modified:	04 Jan 2024 08:30
URI:	https://openknowledge.nau.edu/id/eprint/5993

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